Chapter 12 of The Adventures of Don Lavington is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XII
Chapter 12 of The Adventures of Don Lavington is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising. "Jem! Where's Jem?" "Here! All right, Mas' Don.
Chapter 12 of The Adventures of Don Lavington is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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an effort that is inconvenient
From this reading “The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising.”
a Spanish gentleman or nobleman
From this reading “The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising.”
having come or been brought to a conclusion
From this reading “The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising.”
the act of giving
From this reading “The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising.”
a terrorist organization founded in 2000; a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with al-Rashid Trust; seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings
From this reading “"Jem!”
plural of “ma” — informal terms for a mother
From this reading “All right, Mas' Don.”
advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status
From this reading “The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising.”
move or cause to move back and forth
From this reading “The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading All right, Mas' Don.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising.
an effort that is inconvenient
From this reading The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising.
a Spanish gentleman or nobleman
From this reading The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising.
having come or been brought to a conclusion
From this reading The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising.
the act of giving
From this reading The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading "Here!
used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object
From this reading The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising.
a terrorist organization founded in 2000; a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with al-Rashid Trust; seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings
From this reading "Jem!
plural of “ma” — informal terms for a mother
From this reading All right, Mas' Don.
precisely, exactly
From this reading All right, Mas' Don.
advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status
From this reading The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising.
move or cause to move back and forth
From this reading The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising.
without speed (“slow” is sometimes used informally for “slowly”)
From this reading The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The difficulty was ended by Don giving himself a shake, and slowly rising.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Where's Jem?"
Chapter 12 of The Adventures of Don Lavington by George Manville Fenn holds 413 sentences, grouped into 83 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 12 holds 413 sentences of The Adventures of Don Lavington, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 12 of The Adventures of Don Lavington by George Manville Fenn exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 413 sentences, grouped into 83 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
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